If you’ve ever played free-to-play video games on your phone, you may have seen an advert or two, including mini-games and other content with variable quality and relevance. That’s the space where ...
There’s no shortage of tools for brainstorming, collaboration and keeping all your knowledge in one place. Still, judging from the number of new tools that come to market on a regular basis, it seems ...
Creating a pitch deck is hard, especially when you’ve never done it before. If you’re a first-time entrepreneur like I was when we raised our series $15 million first round for Bigcommerce back in ...
In a landscape crowded with moonshot ideas, startup buzzwords and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hype, the pitch deck remains the decisive first handshake between founder and investor. Using a ...
A couple of years ago, we launched a new series called Pitch Deck Teardowns! Astute readers may already have figured out what that is all about: You submit a pitch deck and we share it with our ...
As a fellow in Halcyon’s first-ever Halcyon Incubator in 2014, Perfectly Pitched founder Heather Lawver discovered she had a superpower. At the time, she saw how founders would often hire a business ...
The best founders pitch to find believers by cutting through the noise and commanding investor attention, writes guest author ...
A few months ago, a friend of mine — whose career as a professor and writer has been highly successful — shared a recent, rather humbling experience. He and a colleague were seeking to spin off an ...
Raising money takes serious work. The average startup needs 40 detailed investor meetings and pitches to 58 different investors over 12 weeks to close a seed round. Angel investors typically fund just ...
Media conglomerate Cox Media Group has been pitching tech companies on a new targeted advertising tool that uses audio recordings culled from smart home devices. The existence of this program was ...
A startup founded by former Google DeepMind scientists to improve code with AI has raised $5 million. Hiverge, based in ...